Garrick Tremain: Crime wave

 Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on crime wave not really happening according to the pollys ! 

Stuart Smith: We Must Not Be Idle About Crime

Stuff asked the following question
Teens are running amok on crime sprees and military-style boot camps for young offenders are back on the political agenda.
But boot camps have been promised many times before - and failed. A 2012 report found more than 50% of those sent to camps reoffended. So what is the real answer for stopping teens turning to crime?

Below is Stuart Smith’s response.

Mike Hosking: Dairy worker death is a tipping point for Government

The death at the dairy in Sandringham in Auckland on Wednesday was always going to be the tipping point in some way shape or form.

It was a death that was always coming.

It's not the first crime that has led to a death by any stretch of the imagination of course, but it is the first death in a specific crime pattern that has been building in this country all year.

Cam Slater: NZ’s Crime Wave Is Now a Tsunami

Every day the news headlines tell us all of an out of control crime wave that is growing to tsunami-sized proportions. Instead of law and order, we’ve got chaos and mayhem. The problem has only gotten worse under new Police Minister Chris Hipkins.